New Secretary of State Marco Rubio pauses refugee operations, ramps up visa vetting
FIRST ON FOX: Newly sworn-in Secretary of State Marco Rubio is advising his department to cease refugee resettlement operations and begin ramping up vetting of visas from certain regions in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. After officially becoming its next secretary, Rubio directed the Department of State to halt refugee resettlement programs, a senior department source told Fox News Digital. He also ordered the department to implement enhanced vetting for visa applications from “dangerous regions.” The secretary cited new executive orders signed by Trump after his inauguration Monday. LAKEN RILEY ACT SET TO BECOME ONE OF FIRST BILLS TO HIT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DESK Among dozens of executive orders, Trump signed one aimed at “Realigning The United States Refugee Admissions Program” and another to “[Protect] the United States From Foreign Terrorists And Other National Security And Public Safety Threats.” NEXT OHIO SENATOR, A ‘FISCAL CONSERVATIVE,’ AIMS TO ‘GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF PEOPLE’S LIVES’ The former dictated that the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) be suspended due to its detrimental effect on the country’s interests. The latter order calls for increased vetting of all aliens, “to the maximum degree possible,” especially those “from regions or nations with identified security risks.” DOGE CAUCUS PLANS FOR BIGGEST IMPACT, EYEING KEY TOOLS TO EXPEDITE CUTTING WASTE Trump’s executive order on refugees further stipulates that “the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit aliens to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion, but only so long as they determine that the entry of such aliens as refugees is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.” Rubio was the first Trump Cabinet member confirmed, the Senate voting unanimously to do so Monday night. He was sworn in Tuesday morning, becoming the 72nd secretary of state. OHIO GOV. DEWINE PICKS LT. GOV. TO FILL VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT JD VANCE’S VACANT SEAT In remarks at the department Tuesday, Rubio said, “There will be changes, but the changes are not meant to be destructive. They’re not meant to be punitive. “The changes will be because we need to be a 21st century agency that can move by — a cliché that’s used by many — at the speed of relevance. But we need to move faster than we ever have, because the world is changing faster than we ever have. And we have to have a view that some say is called ‘look around the corner.’ “But we really need to be thinking about where are we going to be in five, seven, 10 or 15 years. Some of the issues that confront humanity today have no precedent. They have no historic precedent. Some of the challenges we face have no historic precedent. We can compare it to another era, to another time, but they’re not the same. Things are moving faster than ever,” he explained. Immigration was a top campaign priority for Trump during the 2024 election. In his inaugural address Monday, Trump promised, “I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”
Sen. Thune suggests staying through weekend to confirm Trump picks after Dems delay votes: ‘Shouldn’t be hard’
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., showed frustration with Democrats on Tuesday after a confirmation vote for President Trump’s pick for CIA director in John Ratcliffe, who has bipartisan support, was blocked. Speaking on the Senate floor after the vote was blocked by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Thune said the Senate can remain in session all weekend to confirm Trump’s picks if progress continues to be delayed. “Do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that’s what we’re going to do. This can be easy or this can be hard,” Thune said. “This is about America’s national security interests, and we’re stalling, so that’s not going to happen.” NEW GOP SENATOR TEARS INTO DEMS ‘SEEKING TO DELAY’ PETE HEGSETH DOD CONFIRMATION Ratcliffe was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee by a bipartisan vote of 14 to 3. Because of that, Thune said the vote to confirm him “shouldn’t be hard.” “Democrats and Republicans, in a very big bipartisan fashion, agree that he is very qualified for this job,” Thune said, adding that he isn’t sure what stalling accomplishes. When blocking the vote, Murphy said many Democrats have “serious concerns” about Ratcliffe’s ability to work as CIA director because he “repeatedly politicized intelligence” during his eight months as National Intelligence director in 2020. “I don’t think it’s too much to ask to make sure that we have a full, real debate that lasts two days on the Senate floor,” Murphy said on Tuesday. CONFIRMATION DELAYS STACK UP FOR TRUMP NOMINEES AS PAPERWORK LAGS IN FEDERAL OFFICES Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the delay is for “no good reason” and is simply an attempt “to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural games.” Cotton noted that while the Democrats acted in similar fashion in 2017 with Trump’s first administration and the Republicans in 2021 with Biden’s picks, that this didn’t happen during confirmation votes prior to the past two elections. “We should especially get back to that practice when it is a highly accomplished, well-qualified nominee of integrity, like John Ratcliffe,” Cotton said. “Now we’re going to spin our wheels for two days. But, as I said, don’t make plans for the weekend. Don’t have any dinner dates scheduled starting on Thursday night because we’re going to get these nominees done the easy, collegial way. Or apparently the hard way.” Only one of Trump’s Cabinet nominees has been confirmed thus far, and that was former Florida senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. He was confirmed on Monday by a unanimous vote. Several nominees have advanced out of committee votes while others still await confirmation hearings.
Israel’s scorched earth campaign leaves Gaza in ruins
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation following the ceasefire that paused more than 15 months of Israel’s attacks on the besieged enclave. Across Gaza, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, mounds of rubble are stretching as far as the eye can see. Critics say Israel has waged a campaign of scorched earth to destroy the fabric of life in Gaza, accusations that are being considered in two global courts, including the crime of genocide. International rights groups said the vast destruction was part of a broader pattern of extermination and genocide directed at Palestinians in Gaza, a charge Israel denies. The groups dispute Israel’s stance that the destruction was a result of military activity. A United Nations assessment from satellite imagery showed more than 60,000 structures across Gaza had been destroyed and more than 20,000 severely damaged in the war as of December 1, 2024. Israel also carved out a buffer zone about one kilometre inside Gaza from its fence, as well as within the Netzarim Corridor that bisects north Gaza from the south, and along the Philadelphi Corridor, a stretch of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt. Advertisement Vast swaths in these areas were levelled. Adblock test (Why?)
Rescuers in Indonesia search for survivors after landslide kills 19 in Java
Heavy rains in Pekalongan cause a devastating landslide, blocking a main road and burying houses. Rescuers in Indonesia continue to search for survivors after a landslide in the country’s Central Java province killed at least 19 people. Torrential rain in Pekalongan caused a landslide on Tuesday on a main road connecting the city with a tourist area, the Dieng plateau. Footage on local media showed the affected road and houses buried and rice fields covered by mud, rubble and rocks. Rescuers were forced to walk about four kilometres (2.5 miles) to get to the site because the road was inaccessible. An excavator had been deployed to clear the mudslide while heavy rain and fog hindered rescue efforts. “The joint search and rescue team managed to find and evacuate two bodies … on Wednesday morning. The number of fatalities recorded as of this afternoon is 19 people,” said Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). “The two bodies found this morning were part of the list of people reported missing in the tragic event.” People walk through the site of a landslide triggered by heavy rain two days ago in Mudal village, near Pekalongan [Devi Rahman / AFP] Search and rescue agency Basarnas said on Wednesday that 13 people were also injured. Advertisement Heavy machinery was deployed to clear road access for search teams and about 200 rescue personnel have been sent to help the rescue effort, local official Mohammad Yulian Akbar said. “The focus is to search for the victims,” he said, adding that the local government had declared an emergency in the district for two weeks. Images shared by the disaster agency showed rescuers carrying victims in body bags with bamboo stretchers under thick fog from the site. The agency warned residents that rain was expected in the next few days which could cause more landslides and flash floods. Rescuers search for the victims of flash floods which triggered the landslide [BNPB via AP] Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, typically between November and April, but some disasters caused by adverse weather have taken place outside that season in recent years. In December, 10 people were killed in flash floods that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java. Adblock test (Why?)
As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining
When activist Oliver Barker Vormawor saw reports in September that Ghana’s water agency would not be able to supply some parts of the country with water due to extreme contamination of main rivers from small-scale mining activities, he knew he had to do something. Later that month, Vormawor and dozens of other concerned Ghanaians took to the streets in the capital city, Accra, to protest against what they said was President Nana Akufo-Addo’s inaction to stop a “looming environmental catastrophe”. They were determined to put the matter on the ballot ahead of the hotly contested December general elections. But rather than get a reaction to their demands, Vormawor and several of his comrades were arrested and imprisoned for weeks on charges of illegal assembly. Now, although Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) was voted out, activists like Vormawor say they have just as little faith in the new president, John Mahama, and his ability to keep the mounting pollution of Ghana’s rivers and soil in check. Advertisement “There isn’t any roadmap yet from Mahama on how to tackle the problem,” Vormawor, who once served at the United Nations as a legal officer, told Al Jazeera. “It’s really difficult to say that his government will be more aggressive on this because even as the opposition party, they were very tentative and uncomfortable taking up the issue,” he added, referring to Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC). Formerly called the “Gold Coast”, the West African nation is bending under pressure from widespread, incessant small-scale mining of the shiny metal. Much of that artisanal activity falls under what locals call “galamsey”, or in full “gather them and sell”. The term once referred to illegal mining, carried out by mostly untrained young men and women, but now more loosely encompasses licensed small-scale operations that mine unsustainably. A galamseyer, an illegal gold panner, clears mud and sand by hand as he works on a gold field in Kibi, eastern Ghana [File: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP] Officials allegedly complicit in galamsey Galamsey has been in practice for many years, but prices of gold that rose globally to an all-time high (close to $3,000 per gram) in late 2024 caused a corresponding surge in illegal mining across Ghana, and in effect, more intense devastation of water bodies. Small-scale miners use lots of water by digging up soil around riverbeds in forested areas and washing it off to reveal gold ore. They use toxic chemicals such as mercury and cyanide to separate the gold from the ore, and those chemicals flow into rivers that hundreds of communities depend on for drinking and domestic use. Some people say they earn about $70 to $100 a day. By 2017, more than 60 percent of the country’s water bodies were already polluted by mercury and other heavy metals, turning once-clear rivers a murky brown, according to the country’s Water Resources Commission. The chemicals, which can damage lungs, are affecting thousands of acres of farmlands. Ghana’s Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) said it lost 2 percent of the total cocoa cultivation area to mining. Some farmers allege that galamsey operators buy off their land or intimidate them into selling. “This is a problem that has been going on for decades now, but it’s a problem that’s escalating fast and this has created a sense among Ghanaians that we are running out of time to protect our country and our people,” Ewurabena Yanyi-Akofur, country director of the nongovernmental organisation WaterAid, told Al Jazeera. Advertisement “While illegal gold mining was happening mainly in the south of the country, our research shows that it’s now endemic in the north. The presence of mercury and other toxins in water is leading to skin diseases and other health crises,” she added. Protesters chant slogans and carry placards during a demonstration demanding government action on illegal gold mining, in Accra on October 3, 2024 [Nipah Dennis/AFP] In a 2024 report, WaterAid warned that Ghana might have to import water by 2030 in a business-as-usual scenario as drinking water sources shrink. Activists are particularly angry at LI 2462, an Akufo-Addo-era law that passed in November 2022, which allowed for mining concessions to be allocated in the country’s biodiversity hotspots, including protected forests. A previous policy limited mining in forests and protected reserves to about 2 percent of their total area. Many activists at the time denounced the law and called attention to the fact that the country lost the equivalent of 30,000 football fields to deforestation for logging, agriculture, and illegal mining of gold and other minerals like bauxite that year. However, the government pushed ahead with the law and proceeded to approve mining licences – for exploration, industrial operations, and small-scale mining, at an unprecedented rate. Where officials gave out an estimated 90 licences between 1988 and early 2017, at least 2,000 more were given out between September 2017 and January 2025, according to data from the Ghana Mining Repository. That period falls under Akufo-Addo’s tenure. Most licences were for small-scale mines, and key reserves like the Nkrabia Forest Reserve, west of Accra, and the Boin Tano Reserve, located in the country’s Western Region, were among those allocated. Advertisement Anger against the Akufo-Addo government intensified after it surfaced that some of the companies newly licensed under LI 2462 belonged to high-placed politicians and members of Akufo-Addo’s NNP party and that some of those people were also running illegal mines. People in Ghana are protesting illegal gold mining, which has poisoned over 60% of the country’s bodies of water. If illegal mining continues at the current rate, experts say the entire country may be importing water by 2030. pic.twitter.com/EOIQB7Oh3w — AJ+ (@ajplus) October 25, 2024 In April 2023, an explosive report by former Environment Minister Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng to Akufo-Addo leaked to the public. In it, Frimpong-Boateng accused “many party officials … their friends, personal assistants, agents, relatives” of engaging in illegal mining. He accused, among others, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, an influential businessman and relative of Akufo-Addo, of interfering in the arrest of mining companies
Nearly all of DC shut down for Trump’s inauguration. So why was there no designated survivor?
President Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony Monday featured the largest, most complex security footprint of any inauguration in U.S. history. The nation’s capital was transformed seemingly overnight from a pedestrian-friendly city into a daunting and impenetrable fortress – the result of a multi-agency task force that erected 30 miles of anti-scale fencing, coordinated aerial surveillance and drones, and saw the deployment of tens of thousands of law enforcement, military personnel, undercover agents, and national guard trucks across D.C. The impressive, whole-of-government security effort on Inauguration Day was unprecedented, and not without reason: Trump was the victim of two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign — including a shooter who came so close to him as to nick his ear — and a domestic threat landscape that was heightened further by the terrorist-inspired attack in New Orleans and the execution-style killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan late last year. It’s notable, then, that this year’s sprawling security footprint did not expressly include one key component considered fundamental to U.S. tradition: The naming of a designated survivor. In D.C., the tightly coordinated federal protection efforts were carefully planned long ahead of Trump’s inauguration ceremony by the Secret Service and many other federal agencies. It’s both a nod to recent security concerns, and more largely an effort to protect the U.S. body politic, foreign dignitaries, donors, and thousands of attendees from any mass catastrophe or threat. The designated survivor, who in a catastrophic event would bear the responsibility of leading the U.S. in the aftermath of a crisis, is typically a Cabinet officer when major security events put elected officials all in one spot, such as inaugurations and State of the Union addresses. WORLD LEADERS REACT AS TRUMP RE-ENTERS WHITE HOUSE Previous designated survivors have included former DHS secretary Jeh Johnson, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was tapped for the role during President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Gates, a George W. Bush appointee, was kept on by Obama and served in his Pentagon role until July 2011, according to his official Defense Department biography. The survivor’s location, and sometimes identity, remains confidential until after the event disperses and its attendees have safely returned home. In high-profile events, a broader contingency plan is in place. As Garrett Graff reported in 2016, Gates’s role as designated survivor during Obama’s inauguration also included the support of another government heavyweight — James Clapper, then the undersecretary of intelligence — who stowed away during the ceremony deep in an underground government bunker in Pennsylvania, a backup to the backup, if you will, and a nod at the detailed succession plan carefully crafted by a group defense, intelligence, and other federal agencies over the span of some 40-plus years. So it was notable that no designated survivor was named during the 47th presidential inauguration. TRUMP INAUGURATION GUEST LIST INCLUDES TECH TITANS MARK ZUCKERBERG, JEFF BEZOS, ELON MUSK No reason was given for the absence of the designated survivor, which was first reported by NBC News. It’s possible that the sprawling security presence coordinated in the run-up to Jan. 20 was deemed sufficient to protect against any threats. DEMS PROMISE TO ‘STAND UP TO’ TRUMP BUT LAUD ‘PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER’ AFTER SPEECH It’s also possible the event, which was held indoors and thus restricted to the public and to members of the news media, was limited enough as not to warrant the designated survivor. Ahead of the event, FBI and Secret Service personnel stressed the stringent security measures in place and the tight vetting of any ticketed attendees. David Sundberg of the FBI’s Washington Field Office told Fox News earlier this week that the bureau was not tracking “any specific or credible threats” for Inauguration Day. “All attendees will undergo screening,” said Matt McCool, special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Washington Field Office. These individuals told Fox News that the fencing alone is more than any other designated National Special Security Event in the past. “Designated checkpoints will be set up for members of the public interested in attending the inauguration,” McCool said ahead of the inauguration — a protocol also applied to attendees of the modified Capital One festivities, which were moved inside due to frigid temperatures. Neither the White House, DHS nor the FBI immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the absence of a designated survivor. Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Trump order puts thousands of Afghan allies waiting for US resettlement in limbo
A day-one order from President Donald Trump puts on pause the plans of Afghan allies who have been approved for resettlement in the U.S., a delay that advocates say could be the difference between life and death at the hands of the Taliban. A pause on refugee resettlement in the U.S. will include Afghans who are in hiding after the Taliban takeover and the family members of U.S. troops. “There are lawyers, doctors, journalists stuck in Pakistan who have been waiting for three and a half years to relocate to the U.S. We finally got the program moving, and we got the U.S. government to agree to allow them to relocate,” Shawn VanDriver, president of resettlement group AfghanEvac, told Fox News Digital. “Now, they’re f***ing panicking.” 2 AMERICANS RELEASED IN EXCHANGE FOR TALIBAN PRISONER The executive order, entitled “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program, will take effect on Monday and will immediately pause the resettlement of those who have worked their way through a system to get approval to move to the U.S. It will go on “until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.” A report will be submitted to Trump every 90 days until he determines that refugees should be allowed in. “They’re getting it wrong here,” said VanDriver, worried the pause will be “indefinite.” “It could be any day that the Taliban or ISIS-K shows up at your door,” he said. “Can you imagine being a U.S. service member coming to work yesterday thinking that your mom is going to get out of Kabul and then they’re like ‘nope’?” The family members of roughly 200 U.S. service members will be immediately impacted, according to VanDriver. Some of those service members worked as combat interpreters for the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan, only to relocate to and join the service in the U.S. “The United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees,” the order says. Since the end of the war in 2021, some 180,000 Afghans have resettled in the U.S. “How can the US government leave me behind in Afghanistan after I approved thousands of airstrike packages against the Taliban?” one Afghan who was in the final stages of case processing wrote in a text message shared with Fox News Digital. “Members of Trump’s cabinet are U.S. military veterans and they fully understand what someone in my situation must feel like right now,” the Afghan wrote. “This was the only hope for me and my family.” Prior to the executive order AfghanEvac sent a letter to the Trump team and other lawmakers urging them to continue resettling Afghan allies in the U.S. VanDriver said his letter has received no response from the new White House team. Trump campaigned on the chaos that ensued when the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021. President Joe Biden pointed his finger at Trump, who had agreed to a 2021 deadline with the Taliban, but Trump claimed the Taliban had not held up their end of the deal so he would not have stuck to the agreement. If the refugee program is paused for 90 days, it would affect some 2,000 people. If it is paused in definitely, it could affect between 25 and 30,000 people, according to Van Driver. Many of those who are waiting for approval to come to the U.S. are hiding out in Pakistan fearful of deportation back to Afghanistan where their lives are at risk before they get approval to come to the U.S. Advocates say the decision walks back on a promise the U.S. made to Afghans who aided U.S. troops and non-governmental organizations when the U.S. pulled out and the government collapsed to the Taliban. The order drew mixed reaction from Republicans. GOLD STAR FAMILIES DEVASTATED BY BIDEN’S BOTCHED AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL ENDORSE HEGSETH FOR SECDEF “It doesn’t have to include the Afghans,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., a Navy SEAL veteran, told Fox News Digital. “I learned a long time ago there’s waivers for everything. If you’re a man, woman or child and you assisted us in Afghanistan – I’m alive because of our Afghan allies.They’ve earned the right to come here. “I think the move itself is correct,” said Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, another former SEAL, said, adding that Afghan allies should be exempt from the order. “Those Afghan refugees fought alongside us. They have every single right, in my opinion, to be able to navigate these challenging waters to be in our country.” “When you were bringing everybody out of Afghanistan, we were supposed to be targeting the civilians that helped us,” said Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, a former Army ranger said. “[Biden] flooded everybody that had any proximity to Afghanistan through that program.” “There are people who were inside those C-17s [that evacuated Afghans in 2021] who should not have been there, who had been locked up in prison the day before,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. “So we’re going to look carefully and review that. Are we going to pause it for five years and not keep our promise? No.” The Trump administration “will be abandoning thousands of individuals who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with American service members, and who now, due to their loyal service and commitment to our shared values, remain at great risk in Afghanistan,” VanDriver said in a statement. “Even a temporary pause puts our allies in further danger, compromises our global standing with any current and future allies, and breaks the promises we made as a country,” the AfghanEvac letter circulated among lawmakers reads.
Dem rising star eyeing elected office has social media littered with vulgar posts: ‘Open your Asian eyes’
A reported rising star in the Democratic Party, who is being recruited to run for office in Texas, has a social media footprint littered with racially charged posts as well as numerous crude comments about President Trump. Accomplished singer and songwriter Bobby Pulido is being “heavily recruited,” according to a recent Politico report, to run as a Democrat in Texas’ 15th Congressional District and Pulido himself has said that he intends to put his singing career on hold to run for political office in 2026. Pulido’s social media presence is littered with examples of racially charged posts along with vulgar posts about President-elect Trump which are likely to be used against him if he decides to run for Congress. “How convenient that Wikileaks only hacked the democrat party,” Pulido said in a reply to the GOP Asian American account on X, then known as Twitter, in 2016. “Open your Asian eyes. That’s more rigged than anything.” TEXAS A&M CANCELS CONFERENCE TRIP EXCLUDING WHITE AND ASIAN STUDENTS AFTER GOVERNOR BACKLASH “You are f—ing blind if you think she is worse than he is,” Pulido said in another post regarding Trump’s 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton. “Chinga a tu madre,” Pulido said in a tweet to then President-elect Donald Trump in December 2016, which translates in English to “F— your mother.” “I’d like to give you the biggest ‘f— you” you piece of s—, a–hole, d— head, son of a bit–,” Pulido said to Trump in another post. DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER SUGGESTS ‘SLAVE MENTALITY’ BEHIND HISPANIC TRUMP VOTERS Numerous examples of Pulido using crude language to attack Trump can be found on his page, which would presumably be unpopular with Republican voters in Texas, a state he won by 14 points in November while making historically significant strides with Hispanic voters in the Lone Star State. In 2015, a Twitter user asked Pulido in Spanish, “What would you say to people who bully me because I listen to your music?” “Tell them I said f— their race,” Pulido posted in response. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP It is unclear what specific political race Pulido is planning on entering, but he has made it clear he intends to launch his candidacy in the near future and Politico reported he would likely be considered to run in Texas’ 15th Congressional District against Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz. “Growing up I was always intrigued by the idea of public service,” Pulido said in a recent livestream discussing retiring from music. “In 2026 I’ll be running for public office in the attempt to fulfill my lifelong dream to serve my people.” Fox News Digital reached out to Pulido, but he did not respond to a request for comment.
BJP alleges ‘misuse’ of official machinery of AAP-ruled Punjab in Delhi polls; CM Mann calls it ‘insulting for Punjabis’
The 70-member Delhi Assembly is scheduled to go to polls on February 5 and the results are set to be declared on February 8.
Days after attack, more trouble for Saif Ali Khan, his ancestral property worth Rs 15000 crore could be…
Saif’s ancestral properties, valued at a staggering Rs 15,000 crore, mostly located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, may soon be taken over by the Central government. This development came after a court vacated a stay order, potentially transferring ownership of these assets to the government.